Beschreibung:
This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography
ContentsContributorsPreface and acknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction: English Catholic history in context - Ethan Shagan2. Is the pope Catholic? Henry VIII and the semantics of schism - Peter Marshall3. Confronting compromise: the schism and its legacies in mid-Tudor England - Ethan Shagan4. Elizabeth and the Catholics - Michael C. Questier5. Construing martyrdom in the English Catholic community, 1582-1602 - Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.6. From Leicester his Commonwealth to Sejanus his fall: Ben Jonson and the politics of Roman (Catholic) virtue - Peter Lake7. Papalist political thought and the controversy over the Jacobean oath of allegiance - Johann Sommerville8. 'Furor juvenilis': post-Reformation English Catholicism and exemplary youthful behavior - Alison ShellIndex